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Save our Town Centre
from being dominated by tower blocks: Look here and email our ward councillors about:
* High rises in the Local Plan
* housing and a hotel on the civic centre (old palace)
and
* 16+ high rises from the draft Master Plan down the Lower High Street
* and there's others...
Tag Archives: South Street
Community House (former Magistrates Court) – Heritage Building Profile
Fine Art Deco brick and stone building with portico and cupula. By architect C Cowles Voysey in 1939, and forming part of an identifiable group of public buildings Continue reading
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Heritage Building – South Street 08: The Fire Station
Striking stone and brick arches add distinction to this neo-georgian building designed by Stanley Hawkings Continue reading
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Number 8 South Street – HG Wells Dame school
No. 8 South Street is where Mrs Knotts dame school was attended by a young H.G. Wells between 1871 and 1874. In his autobiography, he describes it as “off with my brother Freddy (who was on no account to let … Continue reading
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